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Dear All:
Computer viruses are a terrible, but low level
nuisance to all of us computer users. At least one needs virus protection
costing maybe $50/yr, so a tax of $5 billion/year on the 100 million computer
users in the US (and a great boon to the virus protectors who have no incentive
to stop collecting this tax). At worst they cause a loss of 10 to 100
hours of time to the 100 million users, a "tax" of 1 to 10 billion hours on
computer users.
A lifetime (80 years, 8 disposable hours/day) has
15,000 disposable hours. So this mischief "murders" (10^9/15,000)
67,000 people a year, far greater than 9/11.
I cana't imagine what joy the vius makers get out
of their mischief, but the 67,000 murders and $5 billion should make it a
CAPITAL OFFENSE to spread a virus. Instead, those who are caught are
slapped on the wrist.
I hope you will join a national campaign to
institute more proportionate penalties for virus bandits. Lifetime
imprisonment WITHOUT COMPUTER ACCESS would be a living hell for them, so lets
start with that!
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Please forward this to anyone (legislators,
pundits, editorial writers etc.) who you think may help with this
campaign.
Yours truly,
Thomas B.
Reed
COLORADO
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